Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDougal (no relation to Professor William McDougall, the Oxford-Harvard psychologist), is in charge of desert laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., and Carmel, Calif., for discovering the processes by which plant life takes energy from the air and the sun. He aims to supplement both the food and the fuel supply eventually, by obtaining carbon from the atmosphere without waiting for the slow vegetable process...
...least that Harvard has voiced the opinion of the country at large. In the first place in the country at large reason is not so likely to rule. And even were it to rule, the country would probably remain bone dry. It is the inhabitants of the vast desert regions who, together with the bootlegger, keep the present Prohibition law unchanged. But if reason did rule throughout the country as at Harvard; most drunkenness, economics loss, fatalities, and bootleggers would be shown the door...
...enough to run two motors, the dirigible was able to maintain intermittent wireless communication with French naval authorities for two or three days, while its Commander sought desperately to find a landing place in Tunis. The French authorities, with British and Italian cooperation, covered the sea with destroyers, the desert with systematic flights of airplanes and parties of cavalry and camel mounted troops...
Perhaps the faithful commander would have done better to desert the ship and land the crew via parachute, perhaps he fought too long. The mystery is not likely to be solved. The sole technical lesson is that four bases over the vast Mediterranean are insufficient; airships to be truly useful must be supported with numerous landing facilities and hangars...
Were a host of Turkish missionaries to descend upon the United States with Korans and praying rugs astounded citizens might possibly banish them to the Great American desert, as they did the Mormans. Looking at matters in this light the desire of "the" unspeakable Turk" to govern his own house politically and religiously, may seem less strange and the provisions of the Lausanne treaties made clear. For years foreign nations have been allowed extra-territorial privileges in the Porte; but the energetic young Turkish republic has docreed otherwise. As an explanation for the treaties which the Turks cleverly wrung from...